India, April 1 -- There is something almost too neat about this founding story - a garage in Los Altos, hand-lettered partnership agreement, and the date that reads like a joke. April Fools' Day, 1976. Steve Jobs, twenty-one. Steve Wozniak, twenty-five. Ronald Wayne, forty, the reluctant elder who drew the original logo and sold his ten percent stake soon after for eight hundred dollars. Three protagonists who set in motion a series of events, which undoubtedly still define the tech we use, 50 years later.

Apple's way of working has always retained shades of how things began. Not in a flash of corporate strategy decided in a boardroom, no million dollar funding to start off with, but an irrepressible enthusiasm of people who found comput...